Dave,
in response to your query; yes, i'm creating a Ghost image of the notebook
hard disk to the External USB hard disk. Yes, I have a standard Ghost Boot
Disk but that is not supposed to be required present in the floppy drive as
Ghost 2003 creates a virtual partion of ~ 2 MB in SDRAM and is supposed to
boot into pc-dos and present the backup operation gui and proceed with teh
backup operation.

BL

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> From: "bearded lizard" <beardedlizard@discussions.microsoft.com>
>
> | Norton Ghost / Win XP Pro users,
> |
> | i've read several of the questions and replies for norton ghost related
> | problems (or solutions maybe) but i've not found a situation described as i'm
> | experiencing so i'm soliciting your input on this matter:
> |
> | i have a dell inspiron 2500 laptop with an internal 11GB Hitachi drive
> | running Win XP Pro SP2 with all s/w (critical/security) updates as of
> | 12/26/2005. I installed Norton Ghost 2003 on it and proceeded to execute the
> | backup operation. I connected my Datastor 20 GB Ultra external drive via USB
> | to the laptop prior to executing the backup operation. Norton recognized the
> | USB drive and accepted it as the destination for the backup *.gho file. Upon
> | reboot to what should have been the Ghost.exe application (under PC-DOS) the
> | program failed and displayed this error message upon reboot: "missing
> | operating system" on a black screen. only available option is ctrl-alt-del
> | keyboard sequence and the result is the same. I booted off of my WinXP Pro
> | installation cd and ran the recovery console program. The windows XP
> | installation is installed and valid on the hard drive and i can view the
> | files on the hard drive in the command line interface of the recovery
> | console. I have data on the laptop drive that in want to save onto the
> | datastor drive (which is enabled under the windows executive through the usb
> | port) but unfortunately, the recovery console only operates in Windows system
> | directories. I can't change directory to the Program files dir and the to the
> | application directory where the data is. I've about resigned myself to try
> | using the fixbr and fixmbr commands for repairing the boot record or the
> | master boot record on the drive but am concerned that will make the rest of
> | the data on the drive inaccessible.
> | Has anyone had experience using the recovery console and being successful in
> | restoring a missin goperating system? Thanks for your replies.
> |
> | BL
>
> Please explain what you are doing.
>
> Are you creating a Ghost image of the notebook hard disk to the External USB hard disk ?
> If yes, are you using a Ghost Boot Disk ?
>
> It would be best to state what you are trying to accomplish and the steps you are taking to
> accomplish it.
> Then, based upon those details, it can be determined if you are doing it correctly.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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